Hacker News was created by Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, as a place for tech-savvy individuals to share and discuss interesting content related to technology, startups, programming, and more.

Initially, it started as a simple link aggregator, where users could submit links to articles, blog posts, and projects they found intriguing.

Over time, it evolved into a thriving community with a strong emphasis on intellectual curiosity, thoughtful discussions, and quality content.

I'm an avid reader of Hacker News and often come across high-quality discussions from the community. I found that the courses and books people discuss on Hacker News are really good, so I conduct monthly analyses and aggregate the top courses/books found in comments and rank them.

Top Courses

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 7 HN comments

• Statistical Mechanics: Algorithms and Computations

  Coursera · École normale supérieure · 7 HN comments

• R Programming

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 5 HN comments

• Data Science at Scale

  Coursera · University of Washington · 3 HN points · 8 HN comments

• Intro to Statistics | Udacity

  Udacity · 1 HN points · 3 HN comments

• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 1

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 3 HN comments

• Statistics with R

  Coursera · Duke University · 8 HN comments

• Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 2 HN comments

• Intro to Inferential Statistics | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Intro to Descriptive Statistics | Udacity Free Courses

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Statistical Learning

  edX · Stanford University · 3 HN comments

• Online Data Analyst Course

  Udacity · 2 HN comments

• Statistical Inference

  Coursera · Johns Hopkins University · 2 HN comments

• Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 3 HN comments

• Statistical Analysis in Bioinformatics

  edX · University of Maryland Global Campus, University System of Maryland · 1 HN comments

• Mathematics & Statistics of Machine Learning & Data Science

  Udemy · 1 HN comments

• Convex Optimization

  edX · Stanford University · 1 HN comments

• Statistical Shape Modelling: Computing the Human Anatomy

  FutureLearn · University of Basel · 1 HN points · 1 HN comments

• High-Dimensional Data Analysis

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN comments

• Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning

  edX · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 4 HN points

• Improving your statistical inferences

  Coursera · Eindhoven University of Technology · 3 HN points

• Statistics and R

  edX · Harvard University · 1 HN comments

• Statistical Modeling and Regression Analysis

  edX · The Georgia Institute of Technology · 1 HN comments

• Math behind Moneyball

  Coursera · University of Houston System · 1 HN comments

• Fat Chance: Probability from the Ground Up

  edX · Harvard University · 2 HN points

• Statistics

  Udacity · 2 HN points

• Statistical Thermodynamics: Molecules to Machines

  Coursera · Carnegie Mellon University · 1 HN points

• Social and Economic Networks: Models and Analysis

  Coursera · Stanford University · 1 HN points

• Data Science for Executives

  edX · Columbia University · 1 HN points

Our methodology

We conducted this analysis by "ranking things based on social signals"

It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to online courses and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place.

Ranking currently takes into account HN stories (points) and comments (sentiment, karma, estimated points).

Who are we

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